Ukraine to compete at 2024 Olympics on one condition: athletes from Russia and Belarus must perform under neutral flags

Forget neutral flags, they should be banned. Heck, Russia should be banned for doping, regardless of the war.

I have to wonder if Russia has ever really won a medal without cheating?

They've been caught cheating at the paralympics also. What's next, the special olympics?
I thought Russia was still banned for doping.
- The competed as the Russian Olympic Committee. But I believe the ban was only 4 years, and they get to be Russia again next year.

Good lord, the comments on that article. I guess I shouldn't expect any better from RT, but man it does really make me sad that so many people are happy living in a fantasy world where Ukrainians are the bad guys in this conflict.

If you think that's bad you really don't want to look at what's goin on in Palestine.

Go Ukraine, but it's official, this worldnews community has become ragebait, like the original one :/

It's particularly upsetting because lemmy.ml is a major instance. IMO, moderation in this c/ is infrequent and underwhelming. I don't mean to hang the mods out to dry; it would take a big team to wade through this effluent and tame the trolls. The hostile "Here comes the Reddit refugees" and "OMG Tankie brigade" shit is just the easy stuff. A rule on lazy whataboutism would help the signal/noise ratio as well. This post is from RT, about Ukraine/Russia/Belarus but the biggest thread in here is rehashing the Iraq occupation. Can we just discuss the original topic? Is that so hard?
- Can we just discuss the original topic? Is that so hard?
  
  When your entire schtick is anti-westernism then yeah it is that hard. I really don't mind the comrades at lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, they generate some thought provoking content at times. However their blind, predictable, and endlessly repeated talking points are tiresome in the same way that an invasion of Fox News viewers would be.
- This post is from RT, about Ukraine/Russia/Belarus but the biggest thread in here is rehashing the Iraq occupation. Can we just discuss the original topic? Is that so hard?
  
  This is why so many instances defederate from hexbear, they do this in every comment section. Just turn it into whataboutism against the US, and add nothing to the topic that's actually being discussed by the article. They're basically lemmygrad but brigade comment sections more often.
What makes you angry about this?
- It's not this, it's this whole subreddit. Might as well call it world_politics_gore_debate_bait.
  
  Edit: to the stink bugs trying to dunk on me for doing exactly what I wanted to do when referring to this place looking like the worldnews subreddit, look up "metaphor" in a dictionary and stfu

Here's the neutral flag:

RT is a propaganda machine for Russia. It's better to find a different site for information.

less competition for the ukrainian teams ;)

This reminds me of that fencing incident.

They can go join the enhanced games. Enhanced games

Edit: They = russia/ Belarus

Both countries and the games can mutually destroy each other

Now we’re up to $900 per US household for this Ukraine stuff. Let’s throw a few more bucks at it to buy flags. Great use of taxpayer dollars. Sure, Jan.

Most of which are armament that the US government already had in its arsenal. You've spent the money and now those missiles are actually in use instead of being hold in storage. I'm actually more interested in that 900 USD amount, where did you read or hear that exact number?
This conflict has the potential to cause real change in Russia. We're talking about potentially getting rid of Putin's regime and it's being done without sending any of our troops to die. The help Ukraine is getting isn't charity, look at the bigger picture.
This Ukraine stuff is a war where 100.000 war crimes were reported, tens of thousands of civilians were killed raped and tortured, where hundreds of thousands of people lost their house.

I wouldn't say it's $900 per household because

It's from the defense federal budget, that you would've spent anyways

The aid packages, expressed in dollars, are the sum of the value of the equipment sent to Ukraine, in vast majority which US already had

The defence budget is there to be able to stand against the strongest adversaries: China and Russia. USA basically annihilated one of their enemies' army without a single drop of blood.
- Who's blood?

We’ll see what comes first, Zelenskyy getting deposed or the Olympic games

Maybe you wanted to say putin. Ukrainians are with Zelenskiy and he's with his people.
- The east of his country isn’t and he has no control over the army. Putin’s support increased during the war.

Someone call the Whaaambulance.

Gtfo